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businesses closed, streets empty as New Yorkers, like many people across the country, continue to live under a stay at home order. But for those who are deemed essential a lot of stress staying home is not an option to spray the guy, and I make it through Today. A number of so called essential workers, we found, shared a common worry, thankful to have jobs when so many now do not, but also grave concerns about working during a pandemic. It's not easy. It's kitty. I'm telling you every day we come in, we pray to God, you know, to keep us safe, you know. But it's a responsibility this time to take care of the customers on the patients. The focus here at Thomas Drugs on Manhattan's Upper West Side, ensuring the staff's safety while keeping up with customer needs for items such as thermometers, gloves and masks is hard for us to get from the distributor. So we just you're just trying. I get it, but still, no, it's not easy. But for some essential workers, they have to deal with scenes like this before they can even get toe work. Miriam Morella works in an emergency room and shot this video in a Bronx subway station last Friday. So what, US essential working dude, How do we stay safe? We're not even safe at work where we're supposed to be safe because we have to deal with this pandemic and we're not safe getting to work. Barilla says she has no choice but to take the subway. She said she doesn't have the luxury of a car, so she has to commute by train an hour and 1/2 each way every day from her home in Harlem to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. She says the CDC recommendation of six feet of social distancing is challenging at best. To be honest with you, that really doesn't exist on the train. That's like it's like non existence to the point that you're lucky if you get on when this a little bit of people. Usually it's very crowded in the morning. The city's transportation authority says ridership is down more than 90% and they do watch for hot spots. But they say it is difficult operating even a reduced schedule because there are fewer healthy people to run the trains. Jasmine Chlo works a trader Joe's and commutes by train as well. Close says she does what she can to keep her distance on her way to work, where her job is to help customers keep their distance. It is risky to come the work. It's a little bit scary, but I'm trying to keep the safe precautions of trying to keep six feet away constantly, where my mask changed. My gloves wash my hands frequently, so I mean it is a scare. But that if they say and it's not just grocery store workers, keeping spirits in supply is deemed essential as well. At 67 street wine and spirits customers wait outside further orders here. They've hired some furloughed restaurant workers to keep up with demand at the end of the day. Ultimately, it's about the people. So if we could keep people employed way feel happy. Jason Carroll, CNN, New York

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Police: 86-year-old who broke social distancing space in ER dies after being shoved

An 86-year-old woman who broke coronavirus social distancing guidelines and grabbed onto another patient's IV pole in the emergency room was shoved, fell to the floor, hit her head and later died, according to a report from the New York City Police Department.Janie Marshall, broke the recommended six-foot space between herself and patient Cassandra Lundy, 32, when she grabbed Lundy's IV pole to get her balance at the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn on March 28.A family member told CNN that Marshall had dementia.Lundy was arrested and charged with manslaughter and assault on April 2, the NYPD said.Lundy faces charges of manslaughter in the first and second degree, assault in the second degree, and criminally negligent homicide, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.CNN has been unable to identify an attorney for Lundy.In a statement to CNN, Woodhull Hospital said they are working with the NYPD on the investigation."We are terribly saddened by this death. We are committed to ensuring a safe, health-focused environment in these very demanding times so our heroic health care workers can continue to deliver the quality, compassionate care New Yorkers need more than ever," the hospital said in a statement.Antoinette Leonard-Jean Charles, Marshall's grandniece, told CNN that Marshall had been admitted to the ER on March 27 after experiencing stomach pains related to a bowel obstruction. She said the hospital has not been communicative in providing details on how Marshall died. Instead, she has been relying on local news reports to get more information on the altercation.The hospital had cited the health privacy law HIPAA as to why they could not give more information, even though her mother and Marshall's niece, Eleanor Leonard, was listed as her next of kin, Charles said.The hospital told CNN it was unable to release further information.Though Charles only knows as much as what's in the police report, she speculated that because Marshall had dementia, she may not have understood her surroundings, so she wandered around, eventually running into Lundy amid the chaos of the ER that day.Marshall, born in 1934 and the youngest of 12 children, was "one of the sweetest, friendliest women you could ever meet," said Charles. According to her obituary, Marshall worked for the Social Security Administration and was one of the first African American women to receive a Commissioner Citation, the agency's highest award.Marshall "never wanted to be anybody's victim," she added, which was perhaps the hardest part of learning of her death — that the family wasn't there and Marshall was ultimately a victim of circumstances in being in the wrong place at the wrong time.As the hospitals in New York City and across the country grapple with surging coronavirus-related hospitalizations, Charles stressed that violence in uncertain times will never change anything.One fearful action could lead to serious, unintended consequences, she said."Violence is not going to change anything."

NEW YORK —

An 86-year-old woman who broke coronavirus social distancing guidelines and grabbed onto another patient's IV pole in the emergency room was shoved, fell to the floor, hit her head and later died, according to a report from the New York City Police Department.

Janie Marshall, broke the recommended six-foot space between herself and patient Cassandra Lundy, 32, when she grabbed Lundy's IV pole to get her balance at the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn on March 28.

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A family member told CNN that Marshall had dementia.

Lundy was arrested and charged with manslaughter and assault on April 2, the NYPD said.

Lundy faces charges of manslaughter in the first and second degree, assault in the second degree, and criminally negligent homicide, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.

CNN has been unable to identify an attorney for Lundy.

In a statement to CNN, Woodhull Hospital said they are working with the NYPD on the investigation.

"We are terribly saddened by this death. We are committed to ensuring a safe, health-focused environment in these very demanding times so our heroic health care workers can continue to deliver the quality, compassionate care New Yorkers need more than ever," the hospital said in a statement.

Antoinette Leonard-Jean Charles, Marshall's grandniece, told CNN that Marshall had been admitted to the ER on March 27 after experiencing stomach pains related to a bowel obstruction. She said the hospital has not been communicative in providing details on how Marshall died. Instead, she has been relying on local news reports to get more information on the altercation.

The hospital had cited the health privacy law HIPAA as to why they could not give more information, even though her mother and Marshall's niece, Eleanor Leonard, was listed as her next of kin, Charles said.

The hospital told CNN it was unable to release further information.

Though Charles only knows as much as what's in the police report, she speculated that because Marshall had dementia, she may not have understood her surroundings, so she wandered around, eventually running into Lundy amid the chaos of the ER that day.

Marshall, born in 1934 and the youngest of 12 children, was "one of the sweetest, friendliest women you could ever meet," said Charles. According to her obituary, Marshall worked for the Social Security Administration and was one of the first African American women to receive a Commissioner Citation, the agency's highest award.

Marshall "never wanted to be anybody's victim," she added, which was perhaps the hardest part of learning of her death — that the family wasn't there and Marshall was ultimately a victim of circumstances in being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As the hospitals in New York City and across the country grapple with surging coronavirus-related hospitalizations, Charles stressed that violence in uncertain times will never change anything.

One fearful action could lead to serious, unintended consequences, she said.